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  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    rrivers wrote:
    catefrances wrote:
    still reading the secret history by donna tartt. and im loving it...still. shoulda read it years ago. :mrgreen:

    A friend at work recommended that book to me.

    well.. are you gonna read it??? i finished it yesterday and am now onto dr zhivago.
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  • AmentsChick
    AmentsChick Posts: 6,969
    Jesus Land by Julia Scheeres

    http://www.juliascheeres.com/
    This is the greatest band in the world -- Ben Harper

  • Cliffy6745
    Cliffy6745 Posts: 34,029
    Not sure if anyone has heard of this but on Sept. 15th Jon Krakauer (author of Into The Wild) has a book coming out on Pat Tillman and it looks great.

    I am currently reading "Stealing Myspace: The Battle To Control The Most Powerful Website In America" by Julia Angwin. I know it does not sound very interesting and I am reading it mostly for work purposes but it is pretty interesting.
  • Cliffy6745
    Cliffy6745 Posts: 34,029
    Indifference71 wrote:
    Eric Clapton autobiography. Great read. I cant put it down. Almost done.

    I loved it. Read it about a year ago and loved every page.
  • Jeanwah
    Jeanwah Posts: 6,363
    The Tenth Insight by James Redfield
  • chinobaeza
    chinobaeza Santiago Posts: 2,489
    A Woman in Berlin - Anonymous
  • AmentsChick
    AmentsChick Posts: 6,969
    Cliffy6745 wrote:
    Not sure if anyone has heard of this but on Sept. 15th Jon Krakauer (author of Into The Wild) has a book coming out on Pat Tillman and it looks great.

    I am currently reading "Stealing Myspace: The Battle To Control The Most Powerful Website In America" by Julia Angwin. I know it does not sound very interesting and I am reading it mostly for work purposes but it is pretty interesting.

    Yup, I've been waiting since last YEAR for this book to be released. There was a problem with the publisher and Krakauer held back on releasing it. Cannot WAIT to read it! He's my all-time favorite author!
    This is the greatest band in the world -- Ben Harper

  • Who Princess
    Who Princess out here in the fields Posts: 7,305
    AmentsChick wrote:
    Cliffy6745 wrote:
    Not sure if anyone has heard of this but on Sept. 15th Jon Krakauer (author of Into The Wild) has a book coming out on Pat Tillman and it looks great.

    I am currently reading "Stealing Myspace: The Battle To Control The Most Powerful Website In America" by Julia Angwin. I know it does not sound very interesting and I am reading it mostly for work purposes but it is pretty interesting.

    Yup, I've been waiting since last YEAR for this book to be released. There was a problem with the publisher and Krakauer held back on releasing it. Cannot WAIT to read it! He's my all-time favorite author!
    I'm looking forward to that one too. I like his stuff and I'll be interested to see what he has to say.

    Last year I read the book that was written by Pat Tillman's mother, Boots on the Ground by Dusk. It was not an easy read. His family has experienced so much sadness, frustration, and anger. They were lied to repeatedly and still don't have all the answer's about their son's death. His mother has heard from numerous families who lost a son or daughter under questionable circumstances in Iraq or Afghanistan and she is painfully aware that the only reason her family has been able to investigate Pat's death is because he was a former NFL player. I read the book at the suggestion of a friend of mine, whose son played intramural soccer with Pat Tillman when they were in elementary and junior high school.
    "The stars are all connected to the brain."
  • PJSerf
    PJSerf Posts: 637
    Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
    "If you love someone, set them free... if someone loves you, don't fuck up" - EV
  • Cliffy6745
    Cliffy6745 Posts: 34,029
    whoprincess wrote:
    AmentsChick wrote:
    Cliffy6745 wrote:
    Not sure if anyone has heard of this but on Sept. 15th Jon Krakauer (author of Into The Wild) has a book coming out on Pat Tillman and it looks great.

    I am currently reading "Stealing Myspace: The Battle To Control The Most Powerful Website In America" by Julia Angwin. I know it does not sound very interesting and I am reading it mostly for work purposes but it is pretty interesting.

    Yup, I've been waiting since last YEAR for this book to be released. There was a problem with the publisher and Krakauer held back on releasing it. Cannot WAIT to read it! He's my all-time favorite author!
    I'm looking forward to that one too. I like his stuff and I'll be interested to see what he has to say.

    Last year I read the book that was written by Pat Tillman's mother, Boots on the Ground by Dusk. It was not an easy read. His family has experienced so much sadness, frustration, and anger. They were lied to repeatedly and still don't have all the answer's about their son's death. His mother has heard from numerous families who lost a son or daughter under questionable circumstances in Iraq or Afghanistan and she is painfully aware that the only reason her family has been able to investigate Pat's death is because he was a former NFL player. I read the book at the suggestion of a friend of mine, whose son played intramural soccer with Pat Tillman when they were in elementary and junior high school.

    Thanks for the heads up on the book by his mother. I will defintely be grabbing that up today. It was a terrible situation they were put in.

    I also didn't realized it was held back from being released. Really looking forward to it!
  • Cliffy6745
    Cliffy6745 Posts: 34,029
    AmentsChick wrote:
    Cliffy6745 wrote:
    Not sure if anyone has heard of this but on Sept. 15th Jon Krakauer (author of Into The Wild) has a book coming out on Pat Tillman and it looks great.

    I am currently reading "Stealing Myspace: The Battle To Control The Most Powerful Website In America" by Julia Angwin. I know it does not sound very interesting and I am reading it mostly for work purposes but it is pretty interesting.

    Yup, I've been waiting since last YEAR for this book to be released. There was a problem with the publisher and Krakauer held back on releasing it. Cannot WAIT to read it! He's my all-time favorite author!

    Krakauer is an outstanding author.
  • Flagg
    Flagg Posts: 5,856
    Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett.
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  • katellis
    katellis Posts: 535
    PJSerf wrote:
    Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

    i read that one a couple months ago. good stuff.
  • LoveSurmounts
    LoveSurmounts Posts: 36
    Brida, by Paulo Coelho.
    Once you hold the hand of love, it's all surmountable--LBC
  • RoughMix
    RoughMix back of a lorry Posts: 385
    Doc Holliday:The Life and the Legend.

    Gary L. Roberts
    "They don't give a shit Keith Moon is dead,
    is that exactly what I thought I read."
  • Cliffy6745
    Cliffy6745 Posts: 34,029
    Not to change the topic, it is about an upcoming book release.

    Todd Drew, a Yankees blogger who passed away before this season is having one of his blog entries published in this year's edition of "The Best American Sports Writing" (a great series and highly recommended for anyone who likes sports writing). It is only the second time a blog entry has been published in the series. Even if you don't like the Yankees check out the piece linked to below that will be published:

    http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2008/11/ ... memory-53/

    And below is his last entry before he passed...

    http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2008/12/ ... ll-and-me/

    Very happy day to many Yankees faithful! Todd was a fixture at the old stadium and a brilliant writer.
  • Who Princess
    Who Princess out here in the fields Posts: 7,305
    Cliffy6745 wrote:
    Not to change the topic, it is about an upcoming book release.

    Todd Drew, a Yankees blogger who passed away before this season is having one of his blog entries published in this year's edition of "The Best American Sports Writing" (a great series and highly recommended for anyone who likes sports writing). It is only the second time a blog entry has been published in the series. Even if you don't like the Yankees check out the piece linked to below that will be published:

    http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2008/11/ ... memory-53/

    And below is his last entry before he passed...

    http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2008/12/ ... ll-and-me/

    Very happy day to many Yankees faithful! Todd was a fixture at the old stadium and a brilliant writer.
    Nice.
    "The stars are all connected to the brain."
  • mfc2006
    mfc2006 HTOWN Posts: 37,491
    i'm ready 2 music bios right now..
    "Shakey" (Neil Young)---probably my 6th or 7th read
    & "Elliott Smith & The Big Nothing"--my first read
    I LOVE MUSIC.
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  • iluvcats
    iluvcats Posts: 5,153
    catefrances wrote:
    iluvcats wrote:
    i've always liked time travel movies...

    I understand that the book the time traveler's wife is better than the movie. I read a movie review and the reviewer found it creepy, like his mom was killed when he was 6 and he meets her when he is grown and she LIKES him....not knowing he is her son. That sounds like back to the future....michael j. fox met his mom in the fifties and she got a crush on him when he stayed at their house and she thought his name was Calvin Klein (his underware.)

    the title says it all. the time travellers wife.

    I saw the movie and I finished the audio book. I don't get your reply STILL! In the book toward the end, she said, "I am the time traveler now." Was she insane?
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  • dcfaithful
    dcfaithful Posts: 13,076
    mfc2006 wrote:
    i'm ready 2 music bios right now..
    "Shakey" (Neil Young)---probably my 6th or 7th read
    & "Elliott Smith & The Big Nothing"--my first read

    The next book I read WILL be Shakey I have decided....I must be good considering your on number 6 or 7?

    Right now though, I am reading "A Confederacy of Dunces" and it is funny as hell! Lovin' this book.
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